No, not the kind that you have in bed while you are asleep.
Let me explain.
This is the second week of the Baking the Freezer theme for March. Where I delve into my freezer and make up cookies based on the ingredients.
I was in the kitchen freezer and I realized that there were two(!) frozen loaves of bread. Which created something of a quandary. I could make croutons but would people like them as a Cookie Thursday is a Thing offering? I also still have a boatload of cheese in the fridge. Perhaps another Why is There Still So Much Cheese month?
No, no, Kate, stop getting distracted.
Back to the recipe books. I saw this vintage recipe for itty bitty grilled cheese looking bites. They go by different names, depending on the era, but the earliest recipe I was able to find was from 1910.
Bread, cheese, butter, spices. What can go wrong?
The uniqueness of this recipe is that the cheese goes on the outside and the butter goes on the inside of the itty bitty sandwiches. And then they are baked. Kind of like a reverse grilled cheese. Interesting. Y’all know I like an interesting cookie. Even though this is a bake.
I think a dab of mustard powder in the butter mixture might set this one up well.
Hours later…
The Cookie Thursday is a Thing offering has been made at the hospital.
The best thing I can write about this is to trust the process.
The best advice that I can write is to bake it on a warm enough day so that the all the windows in the house can be opened.
Because this recipe? Is a smoky one. Not smoke as in “eek, there is a fire”. But smoky as in the ingredients gave off a lot of fragrant steam. Or I need to clean my oven. Or a combination of the two.
The taste is 10/10. Would absolutely do again, perhaps with a bit of Worcerstershire sauce.
I am off to clean my top oven.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 